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October 14, 2008

Open Access Day

It's Open Access day today; one of the things that I find strange about working in further education is that the open access debate seems to have passed many of my colleagues by.

I was alarmed to see that the journalist Richard Poynder, whose thoughtful, probing interviews with key figures in publishing and the open access movement may be seen at his Open and Shut blog, is facing a libel action. I shall not comment on something that may be sub judice, but I think I can refer anyone interested to Peter Suber and Stevan Harnad's joint statement insupportof hisinvestigativework.

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Open Access Day

It's Open Access day today; one of the things that I find strange about working in further education is that the open access debate seems to have passed many of my colleagues by.

I was alarmed to see that the journalist Richard Poynder, whose thoughtful, probing interviews with key figures in publishing and the open access movement may be seen at his Open and Shut blog, is facing a libel action. I shall not comment on something that may be sub judice, but I think I can refer anyone interested to Peter Suber and Stevan Harnad's joint statement insupportof hisinvestigativework.